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Quantum computation is helping uncover materials that turn wasted heat into electricity
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Tech Crunch
The most prominent group lobbying for Silicon Valley’s interests in DC just fell apart
3 days ago –
The trade group representing Silicon Valley’s biggest companies
will disband, even as tech enters a new era of intense regulatory
scrutiny in the nation’s capital. The Internet Association has fought
for tech’s interests in Washington for the last nine years, lobbying
lawmakers to advance the com...
A new spyware-for-hire, Predator, caught hacking phones of politicians and journalists
3 days ago –
While NSO Group was taking flak for hacking into the phones of
journalists, activists and human rights defenders, an entire class of
spyware makers and surveillance-for-hire outfits were operating as
normal, largely unnoticed. These private surveillance groups develop and
deploy never-before-seen...
Instagram now lets you embed a miniature version of your profile into a website
3 days ago –
Instagram is rolling out a new “Profile Embed” feature that
allows users to embed a miniature version of their profile into a
website. The new feature will allow users to further integrate their
Instagram profiles into websites such as blogs and portfolios. The
social media giant says the feature...
Mobile overdraft facility Fuliza outshines Silicon Valley-backed lending apps in Kenya
3 days ago –
A digital mobile overdraft facility christened Fuliza by Kenya’s
biggest telco Safaricom Plc is giving the country’s popular loan apps a
run for their money barely three years after its launch. Fuliza allows
Safaricom customers to access unsecured credit by overdrawing on M-Pesa —
the telecommuni...
Fuzey takes in $4.5M to charge up its management tools for service-based businesses
3 days ago –
The company's tools digitize for small businesses what was traditionally done manually and on paper, like invoices.
Alibaba’s Southeast Asia arm Lazada hits 130M annual consumers
3 days ago –
Alibaba has always aspired to bring its e-commerce service to
customers outside China. Its strategy is multi-thronged. The giant’s
house-developed AliExpress has found success in Russia in recent years.
In 2016, it bought Lazada, which came out of the Rocket Internet empire,
and has helped the So...
3 days ago –
Two years ago, a group of entrepreneurs in Pakistan began
surveying the market to understand why financial services weren’t
reaching the majority of merchants in the world’s fifth most populous
nation. On Friday, Tiger Global said it is backing their startup,
CreditBook, to help address those cha...
Coatue, Robert Downey Jr. fund cove.tool’s design tools for sustainable building
2 days ago –
While there is plenty of technology out there to help make a
building more sustainable, the ability to incorporate features into its
design can be easier said than done. Enter cove.tool, a startup that
wants to make sure buildings are sustainable by design from the moment
of inception. The Atlant...
Backed by former Facebook and Twitter execs, Tagg launches social branding app for Gen Z
2 days ago –
Gen Z isn’t satisfied with the social media they grew up with,
so they’re building the apps that they want to use. A “social branding”
app for creative teens and twenty-somethings, Tagg is announcing a $2
million seed round today from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, Facebook’s
former VP of Internat...
You are the most influential person we know
3 days ago –
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business
of startups where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.
To close out the year, Natasha and Mary Ann and Alex headed to the mic
with Grace and Chris behind the scenes. We got to our favorite topics,
and honestly, got a...
Daily Crunch: After growing 500% in 12 months, Hevo Data raises $30 million Series B
2 days ago –
Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most
important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.
Nonprofits have the answers to improve social media: Big Tech has the resources to make it happen
2 days ago –
There is potential for social media giants to team up with other
organizations and nonprofits to make social media a safer place for all
people.
TechCrunch+ roundup: Travel bans and H-1Bs, Reddit’s IPO plans, early-stage space chat
2 days ago –
I’ll be off on Tuesday, December 21, but we’ll return with a
very comprehensive newsletter on Friday, December 24. Thanks very much
for reading, and have a great week!
Kurly lands $210M pre-IPO at a $3.3B valuation just months after its last funding
38 minutes ago –
Just half a year after its last Series F round announcement,
Korean online grocery startup Kurly has closed $210 million in a pre-IPO
round from single backer Anchor Equity Partners, a Hong Kong-based
private equity firm. The latest funding brings its total raised to
approximately $761 million a...
Indian fintech giant Razorpay valued at $7.5 billion in $375 million funding
9 hours ago –
Razorpay has more than doubled its valuation to $7.5 billion
from $3 billion in April as one of India’s largest fintech giants
demonstrates fast growth and aggressively broadens its product
offerings. The Bangalore-headquartered startup, which is a market leader
in payments processing in India, s...
Putin and Xi’s evolving disinformation playbooks pose new threats
12 hours ago –
The TechCrunch Global Affairs Project examines the increasingly
intertwined relationship between the tech sector and global politics.
The Verge
H&R Block is suing Block, formerly Square, over its new name
2 days ago –
Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Tax preparation service H&R Block filed a lawsuit against Block,
Inc. (formerly Square, Inc.) for trademark infringement on Thursday,
CNBC reported.
“Today’s filing is an important effort to prevent consumer confusion and
ensure a competitor cannot lev...
This cute EV off-road buggy concept arrived just in time for the weekend
2 days ago –
Beep beep, I’m a buggy. | Image: Citroën
After pining after Hyundai’s evil (in a good way) EV retro concept, a
new concept vehicle has come to steal my heart from a company I can’t
say I’ve heard of before. It’s the Citroën My Ami Buggy, a tiny
battery-powered vehicle that looks like a sm...
WSJ’s deep dive into eating disorder rabbit holes on TikTok explains a sudden policy change
a day ago –
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
A troubling report from the Wall Street Journal digs into the personal
experiences of young girls who were sent down rabbit holes of extreme
weight loss challenges, purging techniques, and deadly diets through
TikTok, contributing to the development...
2 days ago –
Adidas’ NFTs were quite popular. | Image: Adidas
All 30,000 of Adidas’ Into the Metaverse NFTs were minted within a
matter of hours of going on sale Friday. Each NFT cost 0.2 ETH, which
currently equates to about $765, and the company sold 29,620 NFTs
(“Adidas and partners” held onto 380 ...
Leaked images show upcoming Garmin Fenix 7 and Venu 2 Plus smartwatches
4 hours ago –
Leaked images of the Fenix 7, Venu 2 Plus, Instinct 2, and the
Epix Gen2 (pictured from left to right). | Photo by Winfuture
A trove of leaked images shows what Garmin’s upcoming 2022 smartwatch
lineup may look like. A report by German technology site Winfuture shows
the supposed images
a day ago –
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Nvidia’s upcoming RTX 2050 laptop GPUs don’t sound “new” at all,
considering that the company already released the RTX 3050 and 3050 Ti
GPUs for laptops earlier this year (via VideoCardz). But it’s clear that
Nvidia isn’t ready to retire its 20 seri...
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